Re: sda2 is corrupted (HOWTO NOT HELP)

[Jim <binarynut@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/06/2012 11:09 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 06.07.2012 17:01, schrieb Reindl Harald:

Am 06.07.2012 16:11, schrieb Jim:

On 07/05/2012 01:30 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:

I have tried to use fedora and Gparted with no luck

you should not play around before
knowing what problem the drive has

if it is a physical problem google for "ddrescue"

There are some important data files  I must save off of sda2

what about BACKUPS?

ff your data is important backups exists
if your data is not important it does not matter

why do people still need to learn it the hard way?

I run  dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb1  to copy, supposely a 26gb image to sdb1 but i do not see a image on  sdb1 .

Confused ???

no, just stupid because you do not read manuals nor know anything about
basic-commands and that is why you destroyed /dev/sdb1 if there were
data by overwrite the whole partition

/dev/sdb1 is now a blockwise copy of /dev/sd1

if you want a image you have to use "dd if=/deV7sda1 of=/path/filename.image"

well, i guess the reason why this happened was a combination
of plain stupid advise below without explain what it does in
a real dangerous way and blindly following any advise without
trying to understand what are you doing

hopefully lesson learned -> BOTH of you!

this is why i said "google for ddrescue" and NOT provide any
HIGH DANGEROUS command line

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: Re: sda2 is corrupted
Datum: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:15:14 +0200
Von: Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Antwort an: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organisation: private site
An: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On 05.07.2012, Jim wrote:

There are some important data files  I must save off of sda2

Before you start any rescueing, take a full snapshot of the partition,
e.g. "dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/on_an_external_disk"

that is exactly what I did but nothing shows up on /dev/sdb1 external drive after dd has completed .

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